Internship Admissions, Support and Initial Placement Data

Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

Date Program Tables were updated: August 1, 2026

Program Disclosures

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Internship Program Admissions

Briefly descrive in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program's policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:

Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) offers a full time (40 hours/week), 12-month internship in Health Service Psychology for graduate students working toward doctoral degrees in clinical and counseling psychology. The aim of Student Health and Counseling Services' internship is to assist in the development of clinical psychologists based on the scholar practitioner model.

The program is based in a University Counseling Center in San Marcos, CA, a suburb of San Diego located in North County San Diego, California. California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) has a diverse student body, and the intern will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of clients and faculty. The program, in evaluating applicants, therefore values experience in providing services to diverse groups. Cultural competence and experience and emphasis on diversity in training and practice is crucial to success at CSUSM SHCS.

In training to be a generalist through a multicultural lens, as the internship has a focus on, a strong applicant to the program will have experience related to a UCC scholar-practitioner generalist model. These include practicum and professional experience providing short term and time limited therapy, group therapy, crisis intervention, outreach experience, consultation experience, particularly with an interdisciplinary team, the demonstrated ability to be flexible in a demanding environment, and strong oral and written communication skills. 

The applicant must have permission to work in the United States and have permission to work for the entire length of the 12-month, full time internship program.

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

In screening applicants for CSUSM's Internship in Health Service Psychology, the applicants must meet the following requirements:

1. Enrollment in an APA or CPA accredited doctoral program. 
2. Completion of all required coursework and academic requirements prior to commencement of internship, including comprehensive exams.
3. Minimum of 500 intervention hours completed at the doctoral level by October 1st. Our application deadline is November 1, 2026 at 11:59pm EST. Terminal masters' hours do not count as part of this 500 intervention hour requirement.
4. Minimum of 100 adult individual therapy hours.
5. Certified as ready for internship by their doctoral program.

SHCS bases its selection process using a holistic review of the AAPI in its entirety.

Other Benefits (please describe): Please see Unit 3 Benefits  for full description of benefits available to interns.  
*Note: Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table. 

Initial Post-Internship Positions

(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)

Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time.  For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.